Andre Haynes

Fearing the defilement of Diwali observances, a group of Hindu organisations have issued a public call for the National Diwali Committee to rename and reschedule its Miss Diwali Sari Pageant.

Between the hits and misses at the just concluded Guyana Fashion Weekend 2008, Melessa Payne was perhaps the only constant.

1. Accolade: The Music Awards of Guyana The voting was supposed to begin this week, when the public would be given its chance to rectify some of those really horrible picks, I mean Shelly G?

Day 3: Mirrors and reflections Over the last few years, Olympia Small-Sonaram has earned quite the reputation for herself, built on barely there creations and a flair for the outlandish that usually sets tongues wagging.

Day 2 – Man, I feel like a woman 1. There is a God and he must be a Trini After a lacklustre opening night, Sonia Noel must have been praying for a miracle.

Local gov’t reform still on slow road After nearly three months the task force on local government reform is yet to resume its work, putting the completion of key reforms on hold and ruling out long overdue polls this year.

Last week when organizers announced the revival of the Miss Diwali Pageant, they were hoping for at minimum a spark of public interest in what is undoubtedly one of the lower-profile contests on a shrinking circuit.

Cartoonist Hawley Harris, whose consolatory wit poured from his pen during the country’s darkest years, has died.

Indigenous leaders from the Amazon Basin yesterday opened a meeting to frame an agenda to push the recognition of rights and sustainable growth for communities within the region.

On Wednesday, September 10, officially Amerindian Heritage Day, a small group of people made up mostly of students converged at the Umana Yana for a symposium on the life and work of Stephen Campbell, Guyana’s first indigenous MP.

The new Morgan Heritage album, ‘Mission in Progress,’ casts the band as the would-be saviours of roots reggae.

The past haunts the present in The Legend of the Silk Cotton Tree, Guyana’s signal dramatic presentation which premiered on Friday evening, at the National Cultural Centre.

The past haunts the present in The Legend of the Silk Cotton Tree, Guyana’s signal dramatic presentation which premiered on Friday evening, at the National Cultural Centre.

The weapon of choice for the region’s cultural revolutionaries, ‘Rapso’ flies in the face of those all too eager to proclaim the oral tradition dead.

Almost fifty titles, including fiction and non-fiction works by several of the regions leading writers, will debut at CARIFESTA.

Caribbean identity to make the cut at film festival Three dozen pieces for screeningA glimpse into the future perhaps, the CARIFESTA Film Festival will survey the work of the filmmakers who are examining the Caribbean identity in the final frontier of creative expression in the region.